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Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC
Weev aka Andrew Auernheimer is free. The 29-year-old hacker, released from the Allenwood Federal Correctional Center in Pennsylvania last weekend, has spent the past few days celebrating a federal appeals…
Weev Is Free
Andrew “weev” Auernheimer is set to be released from federal prison, following a federal appeals court decision to reverse and vacate his conviction and sentence. “I’m going to prison for…
Weev Needs To Walk
Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer is a troll, but he’s not a criminal. This is clear. In his recent appearance in federal appellate court in Philadelphia, the ignorance surrounding his actions and…
A Way To Save BlackBerry
The first smartphone I owned was a Nokia communicator, which I chose because the C++ dev kit gave me the most freedom. When the iPhone appeared I did not switch,…
The Tiger And The Cicada
In the homes and organizations of the powerful one finds the totems of predators. The Bohemian Grove bows to the owl spirit of Moloch. Both the USA and the Nazis…
State Machinery For State Machines
My name is Andrew Auernheimer. I used to believe problems could be solved with criticism and discourse in our marketplace of ideas. Three years ago I incremented an integer on…
Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Placed In Solitary Confinement For Tweeting From Prison
Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer has been placed in “administrative segregation,” prison shorthand for solitary confinement for “investigative purposes.” Supporters believe he was locked down and given no Internet access because of…
Watch Weev’s Angry Pre-Sentencing Speech About The Failure Of Our Nation
Yesterday, Andrew “weev” Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison, three years of probation, and restitution of $73,000 after being convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges. His actions had…
Andrew Auernheimer AKA “The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison, 3 Years Probation And Restitution Of $73K
Andrew Auernheimer, commonly known as AT&T Hacker Weev, has just received sentencing on one charge of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization (18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) part of the…
AT&T “Hacker” Andrew Auernheimer’s Sentencing Scheduled For March 18
Internet activist (and Crunchies winner) Andrew Auernheimer’s sentencing trial will take place on March 18, 2013 at 10:30am. Auernheimer aka Weev revealed a security flaw in AT&T’s iPad user database,…
You May Take Away My Freedom, But I’ll Always Have My Crunchie!
On June 14th, 2010, Michael Arrington awarded a Crunchie to two members of Goatse Security via a blog post for discovering, publishing and trying to fix a pretty egregious security flaw…
iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility
Editor’s note: Andrew Auernheimer, also known by his pseudonym weev, is an American grey hat hacker and self-described Internet troll. Follow him on Twitter @rabite. In June of 2010 there was an AT&T…
Security Is Hard, But That Doesn’t Mean You Should Ignore It
Six weeks ago I was out drinking in a Kipling-themed bar in Rangoon, Myanmar–as you do–and happened to find myself next to a table of high-powered international telecommunications consultants, overhearing…
Goatse Security’s Auernheimer Convicted In iPad Website Hacking Case
Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Newark, NJ, a jury convicted Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer for his role in a 2010 exploit that caused an AT&T account maintenance website to leak…
GoatSec iPad Hacking Case Underway, Ruling Could Address Ancient Computer Law
Editor’s note: Ansel Halliburton is a lawyer at ComputerLaw Group. In the summer of 2010, a group called Goatse Security discovered a security hole in an AT&T website catering to users of the…
We’re Awarding Goatse Security A Crunchie Award For Public Service
This iPad security breach story from last week continues to spin way out of control, and in our opinion fingers are being pointed in the wrong direction. The FBI is…
AT&T security breach leaks thousands of iPad owners’ emails (but luckily, little else)
A security flaw in one of AT&T’s customer-identification scripts has allowed a group of 4chan hackers to extract as many as 114,000 email addresses of iPad owners, according to Gawker.…